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Is it possible/safe to dish a wheel off-centre?
Basically, the bike I'm making (single sided rear end) needs the rear wheel to be dished to get the freewheel onto the correct chain-line by approx 10mm off-centre (and keep the centre of the rim central to the frame).
It's a 16" wheel so short spokes and lightweight rider, if that makes any difference?
It'll be fine, you may need to alter spoke lengths though.
I think Cannondale so that on some of their fatter mtb's now to get chainlines and tyre clearances sorted.
Do you mean is it ok to have the spokes shorter on one side? If so most wheels end up being built that way, so crack on! 🙂
No problem at all. The aim is to get the rim in the middle of the frame. Whatever it takes to achieve that.
My old Pace frame had an offset rear end to give a stronger wheel, I think it was dished about 3mm from centre. So long as your spokes take a reasonable angle from hub to rim no problem
Thanks gents, I'd hoped that was the case 🙂
I've had to re dish my rear wheel by 6mm to fit in my Fastforward frame.
Took about 10 minutes and used the same spokes.
From memory it was around a turn and a half on the nipple to move the rim 6mm.
I had to do this on a Demo 8 its perfectly fine.